The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

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Contributes an innovative approach to studying the cross section of affect theory and literary studies Brings together a wide range of renowned and junior scholars on the subject of literary affect Includes interdisciplinary discussions beyond literature such as history, film, theatre, psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy

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Donald R. Wehrs is Hargis Professor of English Literature at Auburn University, where he teaches eighteenth-century British literature, critical theory, and comparative literature. He is editor of Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature (2013), co-editor of Cognition, Literature, and History ( 2014), and co-editor of Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature (2009). He has published three monographs on twentieth-century African fictionPre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives (2008), Islam, Ethics, Revolt  (2008), and African Feminist Fiction and Indigenous Values (2001)as well as book chapters and journal articles on British fiction, Shakespeare, postcolonial literature, and medieval romance. Thomas Blake is Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy at Monroe Community College, New York. He is author of Maternity, Morality, and Metaphor: Galdoss Doña Perfecta, Lorcas The House of Bernarda Alba, and Andalusian Culture, in Cognition, Literature, and History (2014) and Staging Heidegger: Corporeal Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the Theater in Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life (Springer, 2011).

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